Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent. I've wrote that we're well, and such as that, but I never have wrote that we live in a tent." March 1937

The older brother teaches the younger on a farm

in the Piedmont, North Carolina, 1936

Tobacco sharecropper's daughter getting eggs from hen's nest in the henhouse. Enclosure for the pig is just beyond under the pine trees. Person County, North Carolina, July 1939